The art of letters will come to an end before A. D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Science is not science. It's an art, like… art, in a way.
Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.
To survive, our American art was cheating itself of life.
It takes a great deal of strong personality to survive the art school training. Hard nuts that the art schools can't crack and devour get through and become artists.
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
Maybe art couldn’t survive it if was sponsored by the government. Maybe art always had to be subversive.
The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest —
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.
There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
"Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival."
Special things have a way of surviving.